Cargo Ship Transporting Nearly 500 EVs Burns for a Week before Being Towed into Port

 Legal Insurrection

"Tugboats finally towed a cargo ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars, nearly 500 of which were reported to be electric vehicles (EVs), into a Dutch port for salvaging, allaying fears that it could sink and impact shipping lanes.

The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port of Eemshaven, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said. A boat that has special booms to clean up oil spills accompanied the nearly 200-meter-long (around 650-foot-long) vessel as a precaution.

The ship with 3,784 new vehicles, including 498 electric ones, on board caught fire on July 25 while traveling from the German port city of Bremerhaven to Singapore.

Much of the gray paint on the ship’s sides was gone, apparently scorched off by the heat inside the ship when the fire was raging.

…Much of the gray paint on the ship’s sides was gone, apparently scorched off by the heat inside the ship when the fire was raging." . . .

. . ."In some good news from the world of science, researchers have made a discovery that could lead to better lithium-metal batteries, as opposed to lithium-ion batteries, while reducing their risk of explosion.  Their findings suggest that by controlling the shape of the lithium it would be possible to create more explosion-resistant batteries than the lithium-ion batteries like the ones in the above stories." . . .

Jason Aldean is right and here’s why -

 Stephanie Lundquist-Arora; American Thinker   "When I was 16 and waiting tables in my small town’s Big Boy, where my mother also worked, a visiting city-dweller, let’s call her “Professor,” treated me like I existed to be part of her small-town experience. Professor was fascinated that I had spent my whole life there and attended a high school that hosted an annual tractor day. She peppered me with questions and was overly enthusiastic, probably for a future cocktail party anecdote, that my weekend plans included a bonfire party in the woods and a swim across a nearby lake. It occurred to me that I was a zoo animal on exhibit in the eyes of this woman when, in a tone that made me wonder if she was going to try to pet me, she said, “Aren’t you just as American as apple pie?!” At her university, I believe that’s called a micro-aggression, but not if it is targeted at rural Americans, apparently. 

"People like Professor love the small-town experience because they get to feel superior. Like almost all other aspects of small-town culture, Professor doesn’t understand that residents of rural America generally do not measure their status based on what they do to earn money. Professor does though, and has fewer people to compete with for “best job title” in small towns. She sits at rural cafes and revels in the sanctimonious glory of her educational enlightenment and her kindness to the “little people.”

"I imagine that Professor is sitting at her desk on a university campus at this moment hopping mad about Jason Aldean’s hit song, “Try That in A Small Town.” Professor does not bother understanding small-town culture because, to her, it is not worthy of understanding. More explicitly, who cares about the white, working class? Certainly not Professor, who is also white, but hates to be reminded of that fact. And since she disagrees with values like patriotism, well then, they must be racist, of course." . . . 

A favorite soccer team; anybody playing against the US Women

😦CARLI LLOYD REVEALED ALL! I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE SAID THAT! USA WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM NEWS - YouTube

From the comments: "As a citizen of the USA, I am a proud supporter of any team that plays against the US Womens Soccer Team."

"I'm a big soccer fan. Played my whole life, even up to the professional level. I used to watch almost every USWNT game with my mom and sister who both were huge fans. None of us watch women's soccer anymore at all and it's all due to Megan Rapino and the USWNT lawsuit against the USSF. Rapino and the USWNT have done more damage to women's soccer than anyone in the sport's history."

Trump rails against indictment, describing it as "persecution of a political opponent"

 

"This is the persecution of the person that's leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot. So if you can't beat him you persecute him or you prosecute him," Trump said while giving brief remarks on the tarmac at Washington Reagan National Airport before boarding his plane to return to New Jersey. (CNN)

 Marjorie Taylor Greene Seeks to Impeach Garland for 'Persecuting' Trump (newsweek.com)   "I'm introducing articles of impeachment on Merrick Garland," she added. "Because we cannot tolerate this in America, where our great institutions are welded[sic] and abused in such a way to impeach people's political enemies."

"It's Called Trump Derangement Syndrome" - Maricopa County Republican Chair Releases Statement on The Persecution of President Trump    "Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) Chairman Craig Berland released an official statement yesterday denouncing the radical left’s political persecution and “feeble attempt to burn President Trump at the stake of a fake indictment.”

"On Thursday, the Biden Regime announced they were going to indict the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 election, President Donald Trump. The radical left Marxists are terrified of President Trump saving America from their reign in 2024.

"The House Oversight Committee on Thursday was finally allowed by the corrupt Biden FBI to view an “unclassified” document proving Joe Biden was taking bribes from Ukraine for political favors, the most egregious criminal accusation against any sitting president. Just four hours later, the Regime struck back, and President Trump announced he had been indicted on junk charges by Biden’s DOJ." . . .

UPDATED: The gods of soccer had enough of toxic feminists

Why I'm HAPPY THE USWNT LOST IN DISGRACE - YouTube

"Might be nice to call out by name the women on the team that didnt act disrepectful. I feel sorry for them being mixed in with the activists. Regardless of how those few women played they at least represented our country well. They deserved better teammates."

"As an American who still hopes and believes better for our country, I can proudly say that I'm glad Sweden won. The American womas team was a huge embarassment and they deserved to lose the way they did. This American refuses to support wokeness, lgbtqabcdxyz, etc. Oh, and by the way, ALL LIVES MATTER. I hope and pray for better days for America."

Image courtesy of The Slammer.

The gods of soccer had enough of toxic feminists - American Thinker . . ."Honestly, who knows?  I did hear from many soccer analysts that this team did not play hungry.  Maybe they had something else in their minds.  Maybe the young women from Sweden had more fun on the field.  They looked like it.

"Last, but not least, the era of Megan Rapinoe is finally over.  She can now move on to advertising sandwiches or Biden's re-election.  Her attitude polluted this team and had many of her countrymen actually cheering that she missed the penalty kick.

"Let me get back to baseball or the NFL, and I will consider another soccer post when the World Cup comes to the U.S."

Jason Whitlock on Megan Rapinoe: 'She's One of the Phoniest Athletes Ever' (msn.com)    "Jason Whitlock: “I was thrilled with what happened on Sunday. ‘The Great Gay Hope’ ruined the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. I think their collapse mirrors the dissent of Megan Rapinoe. She’s made this whole thing the last three years about her brand and building herself up." . . . 

Jack Smith would have zero chance of getting a conviction, if this trial were held in a neutral venue.

 

Did Trump Know Election Fraud was a Lie? - American Thinker  . . ."Jack Smith would have zero chance of getting a conviction, if this trial were held in a neutral venue. However, it will be in Washington D.C., where about 95 percent of the citizens are Democrats. For this reason, Trump and the other defendants may have to win this one on appeal.

For more information concerning these matters, check out of Debunked? and How Elections are Stolen, a new book that outlines 23 problems that must be fixed before the 2024 elections."

How to commit the perfect coup against a president and his supporters - Bookworm Room   . . ."Everything from here on out is theory, but it’s theory based upon readily available facts. If you look at them in a particular way, those readily available facts show a sustained pattern of subverting the will of the people to obtain total political power, something that culminated with the recently announced indictment against Donald Trump.

"If I were trying to overthrow a duly elected president, I’d start by saying that he conspired with a foreign power to cheat in the election. I’d believe I could get away with this charge because I would have the media on my side, relentlessly pounding away at the narrative. It would help that members of the president’s own party, despising him for destroying their cozy little arrangement with the opposition, refused to support him politically.

"When it became apparent that the president was hugely effective at governing on those things that matter to ordinary people, such as the economy, national security, immigration, energy policy, etc., and that the false charges of treason and cheating, I’d look ahead to throwing the next election.

"What I would need is a way to prevent the president from campaigning and a way to institutionalize election fraud. Thankfully, I would have gamed out long before the election what a government can do if faced with a pandemic infection. COVID’s appearance was providential." . . .

I would further destabilize things by using an ex-con’s drug death in police custody, to set America on fire. The fuel would have been provided by years of anti-white and anti-police rhetoric, especially in the education world, from academia down to kindergarten.

 Jack Smith Went After a Republican Before - Case Got Unanimously Overturned by SCOTUS (thefederalistpapers.org)   . . ."Even the left-leaning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the decision to overturn the convictions, which McDonnell said “says a lot.”

“There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that. But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his decision." . . .

A minister proudly touting her abortion exemplifies what leftism does to faith -

  Andrea Widberg; American Thinker   "In 2015, David Burge (Iowahawk) posted a now famous tweet describing leftism: "1. Identify a respected institution. 2. Kill it. 3. Gut it. 4. Wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect." In that short tweet, he perfectly described what leftism has done to Judaism and Christianity. And that act of wearing a religion's "carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect" is the best caption possible for a video in which a female Presbyterian minister, draped in a Planned Parenthood stole, celebrates her abortion and abortions generally. 

"My parents were not religious. Dad had a snootful of religion being raised in an Orthodox Jewish orphanage in Nazi Germany, even as his older siblings, both ardent communists, castigated religion as the evil opiate of the people. Mom, meanwhile, was the daughter of a non-religious Jewish man and an equally non-religious Christian woman. With both having spent some of their formative years among Jewish socialists in British-mandate Palestine and, later, Israel, organized religion was not high on their list." . . .

'I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin'.

. . ."Religious leaders, however, aren't supposed to be ordinary people, at least insofar as moral instruction goes. They are supposed to teach us those core religious principles and uphold those same principles in their own lives. If they don't agree with religious principles, they shouldn't become priests, pastors, ministers, or rabbis. 

"But that's not how the left operates. Rather than ignoring religious houses of worship and focusing on their own houses of worship (schools, colleges, TV shows, state houses, etc.), leftists infiltrate traditional religions and eat them from the inside out, wearing them as the skin suit Iowahawk described. And with that introduction, I give you Rebecca Todd Peters, dressed in her Planned Parenthood stole, assuring her congregation that abortion is a religious act and shouting her two abortions.

"Nothing more clearly shows what leftism has done to America because, when you think about it, human sacrifice is a pagan act. It is the antithesis of both the Jewish ethos and the Christian one:

Democrat Hypocrisy Towards Latest Charges Against Trump Summed Up By a Single Cartoon

 The Federalist Papers   "The problem isn’t that Democrats and their media allies are dirty rotten scoundrels. Everyone knows that.

"No, the real problem is that their followers don’t care.

"They so hate Donald Trump, and by extension any of his supporters, so much they’re willing to ignore practically anything in order to get rid of him and silence the rest of us.

"The latest charges against Trump, filed by Jack Smith, shows just how much Democrats are willing to destroy the rule of law in order to get Trump.

"The charges essentially criminalize speech that Democrats express freely when it suits them."

Here is what Democrat hypocrisy towards the latest charges against Donald Trump brutally summed up by a single cartoon:

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Leftists erase the virtues of kindness and service to others -

 Bookworm Room

Both the Barbie movie and the upcoming Snow White remake reveal how feminism is attacking qualities that make a society livable.

"Leftists are celebrating the new Barbie movie, and conservatives are attacking it for the same reason: It’s a celebration of feminism based on the contention that all of the world’s ills come about because men are toxic. That’s it. That’s the movie in a nutshell. It’s a movie that works to separate men and women by making each intensely dislike the other.

"I think that’s terribly sad because I like men. I’m not speaking in a sexual sense. I’m simply saying that I like men, and I like them because they’re not women. This is not to denigrate women. I’ve always had wonderful friendships with women and they’ve all added to the pleasure I get from life.

"But I like men, too. I like the way they look, I like their strength, I like the different way they view the world and, when they’re well-adjusted, I like the fundamental kindness they show me. They’re not bitchy (women so are), and they’re instinctively protective. This protection also includes courage because you cannot protect someone if you are too fearful to act.

"That’s what men — healthy men in a healthy society — bring to women. And what do women bring to men? Frankly, nurturing and kindness. And that’s what you see in the original Disney princess movies.

"Contrary to feminists, in the old Disney princess movies, the women were not just waiting to be saved. Indeed, one of the striking things about the old movies is what a small role the men play. Even in Sleeping Beauty, which gives the prince a more proactive role, the important character is Sleeping Beauty, and that’s true despite her…well, sleeping.

"What these princesses were doing was being kind and nurturing despite extremely difficult circumstances. I’ve written for years that kindness is an incredibly important virtue that’s too often denigrated or ignored in America. But honestly, can you think of a single interaction with someone kind that left you feeling worse about life? Was there a time when you were tired or sad that you resented someone nurturing you?

"Whether it’s Snow White, Cinderella, or even Pollyanna, the message the Disney movies send is this: If you are kind, moral, and caring, you make of yourself a person who is worthwhile." . . . 

“Hillary Clinton Wants to Save Me from Loneliness, and Honestly I’d Just Rather Die of It.”

 PJ Media

Commie Sad Grandma Hillary Clinton Is Even Drunker Than We Thought – 

. . ."It’s pathologically bizarre how the sufferers of the Democrat fever dream can find a way to blame everything on a one-term president. One can easily imagine Hillary up in Chappaqua, rocking back and forth in one of her patchwork muumuus as she drains another box of wine and muttering, “He’s always here,” over and over.

"Whenever I bump into anyone who is pondering just how deep the political/ideological divide in the United States of America is, I point out the fact that there are still millions of people in this country who think that Hillary Clinton is a woman to be admired. In their minds, she’s had many great accomplishments in her life. In reality, she made it to wear she is by riding her husband’s coattails. She made a deal with the devil after he was besmirching everything in the Oval Office that was besmirchable whilst romping with an intern. She’d stay with him, and he’d give her a career.

"Well, Rudy Giuliani had to get cancer first. I’ve always wondered about that one.

"Anyway, the poor dear is not well. More from VodkaPundit:

Technically, though, it won’t be Clinton that saves us from the Orange Man Bad and his weaponized loneliness. Instead — and maybe you’re way ahead of me already — it’s going to “take a village.” You know, the same village that’s raising pubescent girls to think that they need to take male hormones and undergo double mastectomies.

Clinton — and the projection on display here boggles everything from your mind down to your toes — blames “Trump and other right-wing leaders [who] politicized the pandemic and turned public health into a wedge issue” for our current troubles. The shark from “Jaws” couldn’t swallow that line without choking.

"Those of us who are not concussed remember that it was the Democrats who “politicized the pandemic” and used it to make election integrity drop the soap in the prison shower so they could put a puppet in the White House.

"Hillary Clinton’s unceasing battles for relevance continue to plague the country. She’s like a political ghost who is unsettled in the “everyone has moved on” afterlife and wants to haunt us all with lunatic ravings about Donald Trump until we say, “OK Grams, we SEE you. Now please God have an Altoid.' ” . . .

From Ann Coulter; Breaking: Trump Still an Idiot (but not a Democrat)

 Ann Coulter   

The police officer who killed George Floyd when he was resisting arrest is serving 22 years in prison. The law enforcement officer who killed Babbitt when she was trespassing is accepting hearty congratulations for killing a Trump supporter.

"With the latest indictment of Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith has delivered a comprehensive and well-documented case establishing beyond cavil that Trump is a clown. 

"Well, that's something we've never heard before! Oh no, sorry, I mean we've heard it every day for the past 2 1/2 years: It seems that -- stop me if you know this one -- after losing the election, Trump lied to his supporters about election fraud, which led to the Jan. 6 riot by a right-wing mob.

" The most shocking fact was that the mob was right-wing. Every other violent mob in the nation's history has been left-wing. But their violence immediately goes into the Memory Hole. By contrast, Democrats and the media will not stop talking about Jan. 6. 

"The indictment does not charge Trump with "incitement," and it's not a crime to tell gigantic lies that lead people to commit acts of blinding stupidity. If it were, the entire media and Democratic Party would be in prison for life.

"Those lies led to such an explosion of violence after the Day of Our Floyd, May 25, 2020, that by the end of the year, the annual murder rate had shot up by 30%. 

"As direct result of the media's lies about racist AmeriKKKa, thousands upon thousands of people were killed who would otherwise be alive. The BLM/antifa riots caused billions of dollars in property damage -- and that's only counting insurance claims submitted in 2020. Not only that, but the orgy of homicide, violence, arson and robbery inspired by the media's lies continues to this day." . . .

The Day Tucker Carlson Was Fired, This Is What Was About To Air

 The Hayride

. . ."Jack Smith was the unscrupulous federal prosecutor who went after former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell on corruption charges when there was no evidence he’d actually done anything. McDonnell was convicted, but the Supreme Court threw out that conviction on a 9-0 vote in a landmark case.

"That’s an interesting aside, but it’s neither here nor there in the main thrust of this – which is that here you have the chief of the Capitol Police, whom Nancy Pelosi later got rid of, essentially saying that Jan. 6 was a Reichstag fire event. He said the crowd was full of federal agents, who are most properly described as agents provocateur, and he said the failure to properly support the Capitol Police when the intelligence was readily available as to the size of the crowd that would be on hand at the Capitol, not to mention the overreaction afterward – the razor wire and armed cordon around the building, complete with the assignment of the buffoonish Russell Honore to oversee the “emergency” security, and Sund’s firing after the fact, lend the air of a cover-up to all of this.

"Stephen Sund was never called to testify by Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 Committee.

That riot at the Capitol disrupted a planned exposition in front of the American people of the very irregularities in vote-counting and other deficiencies in the election that the legacy corporate media has for three years denied happened in the 2020 election.

"And Carlson was let go before this interview could air. Just before, as a matter of fact.

"Do you not think that Stephen Sund saying there’s a considerable cover-up of what really happened on Jan. 6, and that the crowd was salted with agitators working for the feds, was newsworthy enough that Fox News should have aired it at some point? Even if Carlson was rightly fired, from their perspective, for different reasons – they had that tape. And it’s been months since the firing but they didn’t air it?" . . .